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7 Reasons Why This Is The One Gadget Your Home Network Needs
The best gadget to invest for your home network — after a solid router — is a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) drive. If you’re new to the idea of drives, they’re basically hard drives that connect directly to your router rather than a PC — and that gives them a number of advantages to the local…
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How To Build The Ultimate Movie And Music Server
If you’re like me, you’ve got hundreds of gigabytes of digital media files, everything from movies, to music, to TV shows, stored across portable hard drives, old laptops, and various PCs. Wouldn’t it be great if all of that media could live in one place and be able to be easily accessed by your other…
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Synology’s New Router Has A PC-Esque Operating System
Synology is a name that you’d usually associate with network attached storage (NAS) boxes — y’know, the big black hard drive enclosures that you hook up to your router or modem to store your movies, music and photos. Synology does NAS very well — it’s certainly one of our favourite brands — but it’s also…
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Gizmodo Australia Reader Review: Synology DiskStation DS215j Home NAS
You could say that Heath James’ technology life is complex. He’s the manager of an IT-centric team within a large organisation and has 14 years project experience. At home, he and his wife have a teenage daughter and two younger children shared on a part-time basis. Heath is also one of two winners in our…